It’s time for a long weekend! We hope that you will all have a fun and restful weekend.
Our Christmas play, “The Not Now Nativity” is on December 2nd. Children have been given their parts and their lines to learn. Please help your child to practise as much as possible over the next couple of weeks. Costumes are due to school by November 22nd so that we can use them for a dress rehearsal at school. If you have any queries, please email us.
Just a couple reminders:
Please refrain from sending sweets and chocolate to school for snack or lunch. The children need healthy snacks to help them concentrate in class. We occasionally hand out small treats at the end of the day as a reward for winning team etc.
Handwriting homework will be: Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy. Please remember to write a sentence on the last line using words containing these letters.
Literacy: We are continuing our fictional narrative and story telling unit. We will be learning about characters, plots, settings and how to write a story plan ourselves. Spellings will be sent home on Tuesday (due to the long weekend). There will be a test on Friday as usual.
In Math, we will be moving onto a new topic: Magnitude. However, the homework will be subtraction practice.
In science, we continue learning about Animals and their unique characteristics which help them to survive and catch prey. Please could you assist your child in choosing an animal (land, sea or air) and find information to send to school (a book or internet printing). We will use the information to write down their animals characteristics and functions. For example:
- A crocodile has sharp teeth for chewing meat,
- A stream lined body and tail for swimming fast,
- A tough thick, skin for protection,
- It has webbed hands and feet for swimming fast,
- A large mouth and throat to swallow prey whole etc. We need 5 characteristics please.
This is not a project. It is classwork.